By Sandhya
September 27,2022
The Intel vs. AMD battle of 2022 has just begun
Intel brought the desktop CPU interpretation crown last year with its Core i9-12900K processor
Now, almost a year later, AMD is ready to trade blows again with its next-generation Ryzen Zen 4 CPUs.
Built on TSMC's 5nm process node, AMD promises big gains for its latest Ryzen 7000 chips over its previous Gen 3 (Ryzen 5000 series) desktop generation.
The flagship Ryzen 9 7950X chip costs $699 and features 16 cores, 32 threads and a boost clock of up to 5.7GHz
We won't be reviewing that flagship chip yet, as AMD only offered the Ryzen 9 7900X at the time of review, which ships with 12 cores, 24 threads, and a 5.6GHz boost for $549.
AMD promises a 13 percent increase in instructions per clock cycle (IPC) and up to 29 percent in single-threaded performance on the Ryzen 5000 series.
AMD wipes the floor with Intel on developer workloads and apps with the 7900X, but gaming is a mixed bag.